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I have New Vegas and Pokemon but that's it. The only seeds lower than 3 that I think are even REALISTIC to make the division finals are Sekiro, KH3, and the winner of P4/RDR. Nothing else seems like much of a threat. MAYBE the winner of BL2/Horizon.

You can level up BP every level in either Paper Mario because you get HP Plus and FP Plus badges that essentially allow you to convert BP to HP/FP if you ever need it anyway

I usually level up FP once and then BP for the rest of the game, in PM it's until I can't do it anymore, in TTYD it's forever

I've played 72 of them but some of them were only for a few minutes

Anagram posted...

I never played Sticker Star or Color Splash. Are they worth playing as non-Paper Marios?

no

unusually strong month

love to see all the great indie games in the bracket, hate to see them all get crushed in R1

who cares? play the game how you feel like it

SMRPG was pretty close, but my first RPG was The Bard's Tale.

swordz9 posted...

Its like the perfect cutesy Pokmon that probably almost every girl player would pick as a top favorite. Im not surprised!

not just girls

Sylveon is the one appearance in the top 10 that makes me smile

exceptionally boring list

Leonhart4 posted...

BotW isn't "wildly divisive." It has a loud minority who either don't like it or think it doesn't deserve the praise that it gets, but it's far more loved than hated.

I think BotW is probably the least divisive game of the last ten years

I think Dark Souls is probably the only other one

LordoftheMorons posted...

Did you catch Calisto's name pun?

I missed it the first time around and it's pretty good

oh shit I only just now thought about it

MetalmindStats posted...

That's some serious Skyrim disrespect (or BOTW respect, I guess) imo.

BOTW respect mostly

I do think BOTW doubles up Skyrim, yes

I think Ultimate is the only game that BOTW fails to double up

banananor posted...

never heard of starfinder, sounds worth a look. i do remember using some kind of d20 sci fi system from dungeon magazine way back in the day

what custom systems are you thinking of? rift was an old one i enjoyed reading. there was another system i got off the internet with a name i can't remember- maybe dark horizons- that i played a few sessions with. the one person who picked the snake people with six arms (holding six guns or 3 laser rifles) made me realize balance was not the designer's goal. then again, it somehow all worked, since the octopus hacker could do practically anything and the mineral man was practically invincible.

i've talked to some people that are into the opposite- RPG systems with paper thin mechanics designed to be excuses to narrate your own stories. nobilis, and some other one about gods. i guess the white wolf books fall into this category, too

oh no, I mean like, a friend has been running a custom game of his for us for a long time, and I just play that instead of actually knowing any mainstream games

I find PF2 utterly miserable for a bunch of reasons and I miss 3.5/PF1. Starfinder is good though

Insanely byzantine custom systems are where it's at though

Kenri posted...

Hardest boss in the game.

Easily

it's on a tier of difficulty entirely on its own imo, it's just vastly more harrowing than any other boss in the game

it'll grow on you

And yeah the AA portions of the game alone are better than AA4 and AAI1, haha

The Layton game is worth playing but you can do it whenever, it's noncanon

it's actually shocking how much better AAI2 is, I wasn't even upset that it didn't make it outside of japan because of how mediocre the first game was but it like legit holds up against all odds. it's weird

I do think splitting up the game between investigations and court segments is better, although I also do think that AAI2 is (usually) paced better as well and just has more interesting encounters.

E1-5 has enough going for it for me to rank the game above AA4 - the Shih-na twist is great and then following that up with Lang accusing Franziska to trick Alba is awesome. There's a lot of really solid humor in that case too in general. It drags on a little bit at the end though.

Jakyl25 posted...

Well you just beat the second toughest section of the game. Only the final dungeon is worse. Congrats!

Some of the palaces have their moments, depending on your iron knuckle fighting tactics and how easily you get lost in palaces 5/6

Dairas I assume, the axe wielders

Death mountain is probably one of the most serious tests in the game, it's brutal but if you get through it things ease up

LordoftheMorons posted...

The specific stat that always stands out to me from 2016 is that Bernie beat Hillary by like 40 points in the Washington caucus, and then later Washington had a primary (which doesnt count, so I dont understand the point of doing both). The primary had almost three times as many voters participating and Hillary won it by like 5 points.

Basically my point is that caucuses are stupid

I don't know if anyone made this point but I want to add that the democratic primary in 2016 was fully nonbinding, meaning no delegates are assigned as a result of it, so many people (like me) skipped out on it

"Warren stan drifting towards Bloomberg" just provides further evidence to my theory that most people basically vote at random

Dancedreamer posted...

George Bush
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Bob Dole

George Bashington
Thomas Befferson
James Badison
Andrew Backson
James Bolk
Abraham Bincoln
Ulysses S. Brant
James Barfield
Theodore Boosevelt

Shit, this goes all the way down!

I started playing Super Mario Odyssey and didn't immediately fall in love with it but I'm hoping that it picks up at some point. Just beat the Sand Kingdom and moved onto the Lake Kingdom.

The 360 was the only console that didn't have a controller I hated to death, so yeah it wins

red13n posted...

They want $37 and for us to spend a day at the DMV just to get a RealID. Its ridiculous.

Yeah, this shit. This is the thing I'm talking about. Not everyone can afford to do this.

I've gotten my wires crossed lately and the last time I saw ACAB my brain immediately read it as "assigned cop at birth"

no further point to make the topic title just reminded me of this

Voter ID IS fine, but only if there is a concerted effort to make sure that it is simple for every citizen of legal age to obtain, and that it is subsidized for citizens of low income (poll taxes aren't legal). The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of people who live in communities where more roadblocks exist for them getting the necessary identification than you or I. I live in a place where there are enough locations that provide them and they're open at regular, consistent hours and days. I've heard far too many stories of places in the US where the nearest location is far away or where the hours it's open are basically nothing. This is not satisfactory, especially when this is often by design.

xp1337 posted...

Also there's no value into buying into this false framing that the only voter suppression the GOP engages in is Voter ID.

They've closed polling places in areas that are disproportionately serving people of color (and thus are expected to be more Democratic), they've restricted early voting both in general and with that same specific intent (like trying to stop "pews to the polls" type efforts in some states, they're brazenly partisan about the kind of IDs they'll accept in places where they do have Voter ID (Like allowing gun permits to serve as valid ID but not college ID), they've messed with DMVs to either have to make people travel literally a hundred-plus miles to get to their nearest DMV for a constitutionally required free ID where voter ID is a thing... and then once they get there often try to make the free ID option as hidden as possible, they purge voter rolls even when they lack good cause to do so, they oppose same-day registration, they've literally had court orders (that are lifting this cycle!) preventing them from sending poll watchers to certain sites because they literally had a history of intimidation and deception like sending armed people with misleading armbands and "titles."

This isn't "just" Voter ID - although that's definitely a big part of it - it's a clear, concerted campaign on the part of the GOP to suppress the votes of people - usually minorities - who they don't expect to vote for them.

I dunno what conversation is being responded to here but I want to add more to this:

It's important to dispel the myth that the goal of voter suppression is to make it impossible to vote (that's illegal), or to target specific groups of people directly, like black or hispanic people (that's also illegal). The goal is to cut services and put up regulatory barriers that frustrate and eventually dissuade some people from voting, and to ensure that on average those people that are dissuaded from voting are more likely to vote for your opponents rather than you - again, on average. Suppressing votes will suppress some votes that'd go for you, but the goal is to make sure it suppresses more votes that would go against you. This means that republicans do target black voters through indirect means like closing registration or polling places in certain areas, granting them enough plausible deniability so that nobody calls them out on their bluff, or if someone does, that enough of the general populace believes that what they're doing is above board. Of course, it isn't - and I refuse to believe that anyone who has, say, played a game of mafia does not understand the idea of doing something shady while maintaining plausible deniability to make it look like what you're doing is fine. That's how voter suppression works. It's the same deal with gerrymandering - draw the districts with enough plausible deniability that you either don't get called out, or if you do, there isn't enough backing from the courts or the public to punish you.

It's the same deal with how republicans suppress abortion rights - you can't make abortion illegal, but you can cut services and put up crazy regulatory barriers that make it essentially possible for abortion clinics to remain open and for people to pursue abortions within a reasonable manner. As long as it's 100% legal in theory and barely attainable in practice, you can get away with it.

McCain was polling ahead of Obama before the economy collapsed

Goose game was good but it wasn't THAT good

I don't get it

That tweet was definitely potentially homophobic depending on who authored it but in someone else's hands it might not be. really depends on the implications intended - some people will read it as a gay joke anyway, but people have been doing that with everything for centuries so whatever

LeonhartFour posted...

I decided to combine these three games into one for a couple of reasons. First, it keeps them from taking up three separate spots, so it enabled me to talk about more games!

I'm glad I'm not the only one planning to pull this exact same maneuver on my own list, I hate clogging up the list with games that should technically all belong on the list but are basically the same

The premise of this article is completely incoherent

AI: The Somnium Files

Roma didn't lose because it was foreign it lost because it was netflix imo

Jakyl25 posted...

Heres a handy chart for Sess about how the Dem primary race has gone

(sighs longingly)

liz really 28-3'ed this shit eh

my house at any given time always has like five boxes of Squirt in it

Cats seems like a shoo-in for worst picture